More Than Just Greenways: Lake City Greenways Leads The Way
- April 30, 2015
Lake City Greenways Crosswalk Action With SDOT
May 1, 2015
Lake City Greenways exemplifies the civic-mindedness and good transportation decisions local Seattle Neighborhood Greenways groups all over Seattle are becoming known for.
In the past two years, Lake City Greenways has added a pocket park in the street right-of-way, worked with several UW classes on urban development ideas, helped Seattle Department of Transportation on road safety awareness on Lake …
Editors Note: University Of Washington students Qiren Lu & Ranju Uezono studied four intersections in Seattle School Walk Zones to see if drivers stopped for people crossing at crosswalks.
Their findings were alarming. Motorist compliance rate ranged from 15% to 34%, low figures compared to the national average.
In other words, in marked crosswalks in school zones, only 3 in 10 people driving cars fully stopped for people walking …